Spatula for usage with frying grills

Abstract

Disclosed is an improved spatula concept for inverting, from a frying-grill or a frying-pan, of bottom-side-cooked yokes-intact (aka "sunnyside-up") frying-eggs, whereby the upper-side of "sunnyside-up" frying eggs can thereafter be cooked without yoke-fracture. The novel spatula disclosure has a horizontal upper-plate finitely overlying a rearwardly-handled and horizontal multi-perforate lower-plate so that (whenever there has occurred eggs bottom-side-cooking) there is then enabled yokes-intact cooking of the frying-eggs upper-side. The disclosed spatula also includes various ancillary features including, inter alia: optional porosity for the upper-plate; positioned between the upper-plate and lower-plate, an outwardly extending cutting-blade employable for sub-dividing yoke-intact regions of frying-eggs (including ambidextrous capability); various apt methods for attaching the upper-plate in upwardly-offset relationship to the multi-perforate lower-plate; and other herein disclosed optional spatula features for inverting yokes-intact frying-eggs from a frying-grill or frying-pan.

I claim: 
     
       1. Spatula especially adapted for inverting frying-eggs from a horizontal frying-grill, and said spatula comprising: (A) a multi-perforate laminar horizontal lower-plate predominately extending along a horizontal lower-plane and having a pair of directionally longitudinal lower-edges flanking a directionally longitudinal central vertical-plane and which lower-edges include a left-edge and a right-edge;   (B) a laminar horizontal upper-plate predominately extending along a horizontal upper-plane and having a pair of directionally longitudinal upper-edges flanking said central vertical-plane and which upper-edges include a leftward-edge overlying said left-edge and a rightward-edge overlying said right-edge;   (C) a pair of upright plates flanking said central vertical-plane and including a left-plate connecting said lower-plate to said upper-plate and further including a right-plate connecting said lower-plate to said upper-plate, and said left-plate and right-plate providing the sole connection between said upper-plate and said lower-plate; and   (D) located generally parallel to said directionally longitudinal central-plane, and attached to, and extending directionally longitudinally, upwardly, and rearwardly from said lower-plate, handle means for said spatula.   
     
     
       2. The spatula of claim 1 wherein the lower-plate includes a horizontal and directionally transverse front-end and also a horizontal and directionally transverse rear-end; wherein the upper-plate includes a horizontal and directionally transverse frontal-end and also a horizontal and directionally transverse rearward-end; and wherein said handle means is topically attached to said lower-plate immediately adjacent to the rear-end thereof. 
     
     
       3. The spatula of claim 2 wherein at least one of said upright plates, in vertical elevation between said lower-plate and said upper-plate, is provided with a directionally transverse and outwardly horizontal cutting-blade employable for sub-dividing a multiplicity of frying-eggs. 
     
     
       4. The spatula of claim 2 wherein the upper-plate, as compared to the condition of the lower-plate, is substantially imperforate. 
     
     
       5. The spatula of claim 2 wherein the lower-plate front-end converges directionally longitudinally forwardly toward said vertical central-plane and extends forwardly beyond said upper-plate frontal-end; and wherein the lower-plate rear-end extends directionally longitudinally rearwardly beyond the position of said upper-plate rearward-end. 
     
     
       6. The spatula of claim 2 wherein the upper-plate is securely removably associated with respect to said lower-plate. 
     
     
       7. The spatula of claim 2 wherein at least one of said upright plates is provided with a directionally transverse and outwardly horizontal cutting-blade employable for sub-dividing frying eggs. 
     
     
       8. The spatula of claim 7 wherein the upper-plate is securely removably associated with respect to said lower-plate. 
     
     
       9. The spatula of claim 8 wherein said left-plate and said right-plate are integrally connected to said upper-plate and wherein said left-plate and right-plate are respectively securely removably connected to the said lower-plate in flanking relationship to said central vertical-plane. 
     
     
       10. Spatula adapted for usage with horizontal frying-grills and comprising: (A) a multi-perforate laminar horizontal lower-plate predominately extending along a horizontal lower-plane and having a pair of directionally longitudinal lower-edges flanking a directionally longitudinal central vertical-plane and which lower-edges include a left-edge and a right-edge;   (B) a laminar horizontal upper-plate predominately extending along a horizontal upper-plane and having a pair of directionally longitudinal upper-edges flanking said central vertical-plane and which upper-edges include a leftward-edge overlying said left-edge and a rightward-edge overlying said right-edge;   (C) a pair of upright plates flanking said central vertical-plane and including a left-plate connecting said lower-plate to said upper-plate and further including a right-plate connecting said lower-plate to said upper-plate, and at least one of said upright plates being provided with a directionally transverse and outwardly horizontal cutting-blade employable for sub-dividing frying-eggs; and   (D) located generally parallel to said directionally longitudinal central vertical-plane, and attached to, and extending directionally longitudinally, rearwardly and upwardly from said lower-plate:handle means for said spatula.   
     
     
       11. The spatula of claim 10 wherein the upper-plate is securely removably associated with respect to said lower-plate. 
     
     
       12. The spaula of claim 11 wherein upper extremities of said left-plate and right-plate are integrally connected to said upper-plate; and wherein lower extremities of said left-plate and right-plate are respectively securely removably connected to said lower-plate in flanking relationship to said central vertical-plane. 
     
     
       13. The spatula of claim 12 wherein the lower-plate is provided with directionally longitudinal topical grooves flanking said central vertical-plane ancillary to providing securely removable association between the upright plates and the lower-plate.